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Eggs and Endorphins

My morning

5/7/16 02:51 pm - My morning

Woke up at 10AM--had a rest of three or four hours.Woke up at 10AM--was just pulled out of my bower,I wished I was sleepin'--or at least wearing shoes,I've got the backed up plumbing, first floor apartment blues.

I started bailing; filling up buckets and plastic cans,Yeah, I started bailing, gross as it was, it all-hands,It was unavailing--I was Sisyphus--doomed to lose,It was the backed-up plumbing, first floor apartment blues.

I thought it was our fault--that we'd left the water on,Yeah, I thought it was our fault; our home insurance would be gone,Then I saw the bathtub, it looked just like a big loo,We had the backed-up plumbing, first floor apartment blues.

We called the super, he took one look and went away.Yeah, called the super, but with our problem he wouldn't stay,I cursed that pooper, then it flowed like a transfus-ionHe'd cleared the blockage--that caused our first-floor blues.

It wasn't over--the floor was covered in dirt,No, it wasn't over; my back was starting to hurt,He brought back a hoover, and sucked up most of that dread stew,It was finally ending, our backed-up plumbing blues,All done, but the cleaning--our backed-up pluming, first floor apartment blues.

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Yeah, this morning was a bit interesting. I knew people said that first floor apartments were prone to flooding, but nobody mentioned the idea that it wasn't -outside- flooding you had to worry about (we're actually above the garage, so that's not such a big deal for us) as that you're the early warning signal when the plumbing goes haywire. Also, gross.

Indeed! We're also on a slope of course; that's why our place is above the garage; the lobby has a few stairs leading up to it, and on the far side of the building you can enter without any stairs at all.

But even so, shit flows downhill--as we learned is literally as well as figuratively true this morning.